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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – November 13, 2018 <br />quality of the animal – but to make more animals there – is it something that <br />I’ve been stressing about. <br /> <br />TL: How many goats do you think that that area would hold? <br /> <br />KS: I have no idea. We’re gonna finally move – start estimating the population <br />down in the makai section of the two areas Puuanahulu and Puuwaawaa. <br />Probably the beginning of next year so what we did was we started – we’re <br />doing a camera trap study – I’m sure you guys have questions about that – <br />and we started it last year in the mauka section of Puuanahulu and <br />Puuwaawaa. We did it again this year – just mauka – we’re gonna move the <br />cameras makai but before we move ‘em makai PTA – Brian Leo at PTA <br />requested that we assist him with a similar study in Keaumoku – and so <br />actually tomorrow I’m going out with him – we’re gonna put cameras out and <br />leave ‘em out for about a month – so we’re limited on the number of cameras <br />we have – we can only do one area at a time – so as far as how many <br />animals – I have not idea – but we are gonna move cameras down into that <br />area in the next couple of months and start getting an idea of how many <br />animals are there now. How many there are I don’t know. <br /> <br />TL: How would you determine carrying capacity? <br /> <br />KS: I think I talked about this the last time I was here – and if I didn’t I apologize. <br /> <br /> I’m not interested in carrying capacity. It’s not a number that I want to even <br />come close to. <br /> <br />TL: Why not? <br /> <br />KS: Carrying capacity is the max number of animals that you can have on a <br />landscape before the population starts to deteriorate. I don’t – I think they <br />would eat themselves out of house and home... <br /> <br />TL: \[Unclear\] We’re not saying that you want to have the animals there at carrying <br />capacity – the question was – how would you determine the carrying <br />capacity? <br /> <br />KS: I’m not interested in determining carrying capacity so... <br /> <br />TL: What are you interested in – when it comes to sustainability of animals in the <br />area? <br /> <br />KS: I’m interested in providing enough hunting to support the demand for hunting. <br /> <br />TL: What about sustainability? <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />